Monks and Ants

[Meowster]

I was learning about Irish Monks there, yesterday. Amazing stuff.

These guys only washed four times a year and changed clothes twice. This was back in the 1200's I think. Anyway, the reason they washed was because they had to be bled four times a year. They would be washed and drained of blood until they were completely white, and then taken to the infirmary to recover. This was to stop them becoming too aggressive and such toward each other. The blood was put into a huge pit and used to build other monastaries... (satanic, or WHAT?)

They stayed within a tiny yard all their life and lived mostly vegetarian diets. They took a vow of silence and for the most part spent their life in confinement and silence. They were only allowed to warm up for five minutes at a time in the one warm room of the monastary, at other times it was freezing. They were terrified of not confessing to their sins so every day they did, and were punished for them.

Which brings me to this:

Perhaps Ants are terribly, terribly religious. Has anybody ever tried breeding a single Ant on it's own and seeing how it behaves? Perhaps it could be raised in America and lead the first Insect Revolution over there? You could even let it watch Antz and A Bugs Life, two EXTREMELY liberal Ant Based Movies. With man and god quite clearly on its side, it could go on to lead all freedom-loving ants across the globe into a new era of love and liberty and democracy.

For this, we will need a single ant egg. I recommend Canary Food.

[Las Naranjas]

I tried a few times.

The first time it just wandered round until it found an ant colony, then the other ants killed it. [people in the cave dude]

So the next time I put one in an ant farm, and gave it food. It took the food and carried it round looking for an ant colony until it died.

[Meowster]

Then it's about time we ordered people to go into the Ant Colonies of America, and if they won't accept it peacefully, we'll force democracy on them. If they refuse to swallow our delicious gloop, we'll use whips and flails on them, but really gently so they don't just get squashed.

Perhaps it did not work for you because you are not American. Hmmm.

[Las Naranjas]

There's too much Irish here.

[bspeers1000]

medieval monks apparently could only eat meat if they bled themselves.

Thus the large amounts of bleeding and vegitarianism.

[DGMacphee]

There's too much Irish here.

Don't you mean British?  

[Las Naranjas]

No, because that would include Welsh as well, and if that were the case all my ants would be telling penis jokes all the time and be called after hills.

[DGMacphee]

You are extremely gay.  

[Las Naranjas]

That just complicates the issue!

[Kweepa]

Four times a year? Disgusting!
I wash once a month whether I need it or not.

[Ishmael]

Whew... sometimes these monk habits make me think... like this one, only four times a year, you get all kinds of diseasies and such... how long might they have lived...

[AGA]

No, because that would include Welsh as well, and if that were the case all my ants would be telling penis jokes all the time and be called after hills.

Huh huh, you said "penis".